How would you feel if a rape offender surfaced a few years down the line to pursue a victim for her beauty, but ended up castigating her for being "used-good"? Not only is that highly offensive but you'd probably say what the hell is the rapist doing out in the open anyway? Lock him up and throw away the key - and of course the victim is entitled to some form of restitution.
Slumdog Millionaire is one of the movies I was curious to read about in review before I spent my well-earned 200 Rs at one of the shameless extortionists called PVR cinemas. I've read enough, and I don't care 2 hoots for cinematography as some of the erudite white-skinned readers of CNN etc. have professed. Especially when you film human excrement covered all over a little boy. And pass it off as a patently Indian thing to do.
Britain's love affair for India started almost 500 years ago when a band of the white skinned brigands set shore up on the shores of our native country. To trade, and then to enslave. The enslavement part came partly because the armies were of predominantly Muslim Mughal conquerers who sat on their fat-asses watching Mujras while certain Englishmen on boats were piling up on the western shores. To anyone who thinks Britain did a favor on us to bestow the Queen's lingua france, think again - nobody robs a piss-poor country, so the counter argument and the argumentee both get thrown out the window. And the Brits didnt' simply put all the goodies on a boat on the midnight of August 14th 1947. They did so over 300 years, since the set up of the East India company.
For the same bunch of ragged ugly Brits to come to India, and film - nay - exploit India's "ugly underbelly" for commercial purposes of the white-west who lap it up like a starving dog - with the samy pithy quotes - "moving", "human spirit", "rags to riches" - its just inane I tell you - Yes there is poverty in India, yes there are people who take a dump on the Western Express Highway, but that is the prerogative of the people who take the dump, and the folks who keep populating the slums with kids who take a dump in the open.
I don't intend to watch the movie, and I call up on all self respecting Indians to refrain from doing the same - in fact I support pulling down the movie from Indian theatres as well [violence would be morally justified] - If I wanted to see poverty, I'd just take a little walksie outside of my apartment complex, and watch the kids relieve themselves.
Coming back to my argument earlier - rapists of the native land, coming back to exploit the ugly side of their victim - doesn't sound appealing, it is nauseating.
As with every thing western, take an angle, blow it out of proportion - especially with anything eastern - By the same yardstick if America were Micheal Jackson, Marilyn Manson, and George Bush, that would collectively be the dumbest nation on planet earth - okay just one notch above Pakistan.
A few things India is not:
1. Amitabh Bachchan fans - I find him annoying at times and an over actor..
2. Live in squalor and poverty - Take a trip down to the Bronx - London was the largest slum until the turn of the 19th century.
3. All Indians do not work in BPO's - the few that do annoy the rest of us.
Self-respect is not in the purvey of left-liberals - which is why they will sell their mothers to go watch this movie and get a "new insight into India" while yapping over their iPhone and avoiding the kid scratching the window of their petrol-guzzling luxury sedan.
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